Lou Anne of Piedmont Angel Network was an Investor Judge in the 2009 Pitching Across America competition! To read the full list of Investor Judges, Click Here: 2009 Pitching Across America

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MISSION: To profit from investing in seed or early stages companies with significant growth potential, generating a return commensurate with the risk. PAN likes to invest in businesses that are addressing large, painful problems. These businesses do not have to be technology based as long as the problems are sizeable and the markets large. Large markets often mean businesses with a national or international scope with at least $50 to $100 million in annual revenues. The first investment can be up to $250,000 with possible add-ons from individual PAN members or other investors. PAN?s investors would like to get their money back in three to five years.

Lou Anne Flanders-StecFund ExecutivePiedmont Angel Network

Lou Anne Flanders-Stec is the Fund Executive for the Piedmont Angel Network. She
was previously the CFO for the United Way of Greater Greensboro & eDesignerSource,
an Internet start-up. Her background includes 20 years of financial, budgetary and cash
management responsibilities for small to medium sized businesses. She has her BA in
Business Administration and received her MBA from the University of North Texas in
Denton, Texas.
Lou Anne serves on the Board of Advisors to the Angel Capital Association and was
recently named one of “The Triad’s Fifty Most Influential People”.

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